ANZAC SHOP.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

ANZAC SHOP.

The commit tee of ladies who r\w the Anzac Shoo for the patriotic funds acknowledge, gifts from the followiii" for yesterday's business: Mesdames" Albis, Ansell. Barron, H. Burrell. Biiins, Booth. Coles. Caldwell. Christmas. C. Carr. Dermer _. (2), Downer, Duncan, Kntwistle, Evans. Frazer, Fetch, Hare, Johnston, Lethbridge. Myers, Oakley. Palmer. HobiVrks. Sandilands, Toose. Trower, Turnbull, Walsh. Walker. Misses Cobbe, Lethbridge. McLaurin, Paul. Holmes, Trower, Roe. -Messrs N. Gorton. McCorkindale, Sowerby, Makino and Taonui schools.

The airrivals in New Zealand during 1015 numbered 20.551, and the departures 22,4-70. The meetings at ihe Salvation Army to-morrow will be of a special character. At night a service of song, "Home, Sweet Home." will be given. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 14 per cent., a bonus of 12s. added to reserve .L'HO.OOO, and carried forward .-Clio,OIK) A Farmer-' Union has beuii formed in Now South Wales as the outcome of a big meeting held a- few days ago at Tarn worth. It is to be clearly a. nou-pohtioa,l body. Four brothers from one Maurieeville, family are leaving'for thoTrenJham camp on Tuesday next, making live in the family to* enlist.. There is now hardly a man of mdila.ry age in the Muu.sicevilie district, sa.ys the Age. Three persons swugh.t the protection of Iho Bankruptcy Court in lhe Palnier>to,i di si riot during the month of February, a.s against two for tne »-«■- responding month of last year and one in February, 1911. Considerable amusement is being caused in the minds of the people of a country town north of Auckland by lhe inrlhod of .advertising adopted by a certain business firm in Unit towmhip. Oiii a big cloth poster two following wordls aire displayed in bolft lettering: "Don't go elsewhere lo be robbed, but come in- bore." The membership of the Wellington District La-w Society is now 14(3, ol whom !)() practise in tho oily and -17 iv (lie country. The falling off from 150 last -year i.s, says the council. mainly due fo young, meuibor.s having joined the Expeditionary Forces. The iiuiubor of solicitors practising in the - Dimiiiiiiiiiioin at the end of December, i 1915. was, so far as could be ascer- ' tailicd, 990, as against 1000 for 1.9 H. Few aTO cognisant of the. oddities of the calendar, which aire absolutely invariable. February, March, and November always coiuinniice on the same day of the .week in each year, and October always commences on- the same day as Januairy, April on tlie same day as July, and December the same day af September, leap years being the only times when this rule does not hold good. The ordinary year always begins and ends on the same day of the week, and no new century ever begins on Wednesday, Friday,, or Saturday, and—last oddity of all —the calendar repeats itself every twenty years. The. Pictorial Review for February tells the. life .story of John- McOormack, the Irijh tenor who is as popular in New 'Zealand as in America and England. There is aLso an article on "Who Gets the Most Out of Love --Man Oil- Woman ?"' There is practical advice on how to plan a vegetable garden. In fiction the issue i.s particularly strong, with the conclusion of a, seirial by Sir Gil bent. Parker and the beginning of an other by Kathleen Norri.s_ pins three, short stories. Conenrniiig fa,shions, there are, pagit* and pages, and then some; and the illustrations throughout are beautiful. A display of reluctance among the Maoris in the North Auckland district to ■soiul moi'o of their young men to tlie front was discovered by Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, on his annual vesit to that portion of his diocese last week. On his return the Bishop said that whon ho was atOfiria. near Kawakawa, the Natives were much agitated, and approached him for advice on .the .subject. He spoke lo them for an hour, pointing out Hint, it was their duty lo continue lo send their boys as recruits. They expre.HS-ed satiisfac.tron, and assured lii iii that they would not in, I'uluro place any hindrance in lhe nay oi their .son.s enlisting.